Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. 

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

 It is my nature to be a friend of the friendless.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

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.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

 It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. 

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.