My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

The Illusion of Truth Gives Us the Delusion of Power

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Have you noticed since Global Warming took hold that all the snowmen look kind of angry?

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.