Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I want it to be like, 'Hey who donated that hospital wing that's saving so many lives?' 'I don't know. It was anonymous. ' 'Well, guess what. It was Michael Scott. ' 'But how do you know? It was anonymous. ' 'Because I'm him.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.