Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Medicine kills! Many of those who fight the scams of Big Pharma companies are found dead in the streets.

As a nation, every one of us should have to give priority to our country i.e., India. We just need to forget which religion or caste we are belonging to. Or in which society or state we are living. As an Indian, we need to put our whole efforts in the development of the country.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always pluck a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.