I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Every time she said some thing is cooking, I thought she was in the kitchen.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.