John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. 

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

If you're going through hell, keep going.