No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Corona virus has snatched from us, our right to say the final goodbye to our deceased relatives and friends.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.