You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. 

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. 

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. 

Study history, study history. In history list all the secrets of statecraft.