I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Two kinds ofpeople will love you:those who confessit, and those whoshow you, likecards on a table, because love isa gamble

A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

Multi-touch-sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.