If life doesn't give up on you in good times, why then would you dare to give up on it in tough times?

Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise.

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Run the race of life with all endurance.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.