“I also appeal to those who have already done most of their work for society. I hope that the changes you awaited or worked for for so long will bring joy and satisfaction into your lives. We need your experience, your wisdom and your love.”
New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

To His Newborn Great-Grandson, address on his ninetieth birthday (1958)

“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
Context: I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many.
If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman — my dear wife — as I begin this very difficult job.

Leaves Of Morya's Garden (1924 - 1925), Book I : The Call (1924)