I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. 

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.  

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

I think technology really increase human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

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

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.