Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

t doesn't matter from which caste, creed or culture one belongs, what matters is that everyone is a citizen of India and there should only be pride in that they are Indian.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. 

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.