I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting A go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Mistakes happen unknowingly. But they teach us a whole lot of things.

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.