Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. 

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. 

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. 

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, from my idea of God.