I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

History is written by the victors. 

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

The nations that in fettered darkness we. Crave thee to lead them where great morning break.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, are automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

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

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Let's have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

Happiness is a state of mind.