To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

I don't believe in taking right decisions.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) democratic procedures 4) respect for human personality 5) a belief that all people are one.

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.