Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. 

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Today we must remove distinction of high and low, rich and poor, caste and creed.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

A plane is always safe on the ground but it’s not made for that. Always take some meaningful risks in life to achieve great heights.