Fools buy houses—the wise live in them.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

If you are part of a false propaganda machinery, you are fighting for the wrong cause.

 Even  P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E ends with the letter 'E.' There can be no patience after that. 

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.