When the mind is infested with more judgement, conclusions and biases, than the actual urge for understanding, even the sun appears to be a candle and the ocean a pool.

When the act of service and the force of life merge into one whole organic furnace of potential - greatness, glory and progress automatically follow.

Absurdity of an idea is precisely the criterion of a great idea.

Mediocre minds discuss people, smart minds discuss ideas, gods discuss less and lift others more.

Immortality is a matter of the mind, not of the body - you are alive as long as people can remember you by your actions - by the idea that your life represents.

Agony can bring greatness out of a person, but in the process, the person has to walk barefoot on red-hot coal while bleeding from all over the being.

The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.