Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, acts rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Landslides, cloudbursts, and what not—the hill folks have to contend with more than their share of woes.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. 

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. 

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.