A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Everyone has excess awareness in one or two things. In everything else, he does have awareness indeed. If one has equal awareness in everything, he will indeed become a Gnani [the enlightened one].

Introspect. Dive deep into your own Life and think . . .. Think . . . “How have I lived?” “How can I make my Life better?

The wisest of the wise may err.

Falling in love was the easy part planning a wedding - yikes!

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.