When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Take to the path of dharma – the path of truth and justice. Don’t misuse your valour. Remain united. March forward in all humility, but fully awake to the situation you face, demanding your rights and firmness.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out. 

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Our output is alwasy far below our maximum capacity.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

It is a narrow path that leads to the entry gate of objective journalism.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.