You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. 

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker. 

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.