It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote does not matter or do vote and nothing happens.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

There is no pain in losing what you never had.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.