Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. 

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. 

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The things that we use today are products of our cultural heritage and economic development.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.