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 think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that put on American troops at risk, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them against identified enemy targets.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. 

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.