Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Weak leaders use others to defend them. The strong fight their own battles.

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

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.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

History is written by the victors. 

The kindness in our nature or behaviour can become the reason for our own defeat. So, with full rage in our eyes, we have to fight for the injustice which is happening to us.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.