Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

Come to the Lord with boldness and talk to Him in prayer

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show them as much love back as they show me.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.