Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If you are overconfident, you may learn things the hard way.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense changes in society.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actress. You have to give them something that they can act with.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. 

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.