A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

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.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.