The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
