I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope Self.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being to risk his body to risk his life in a great cause.

An index is a great leveller.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.