If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.