Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

IT+IT=IT; Indian talent + Information technology = India Tomorrow

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.