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

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

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.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

There is joy in every circumstance. Although the beginning is/might be bitter, there are valuables lessons in between that bring joy.

When we access ourselves wrongly, we are mistaken about our abilities

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These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.

The writer considers sayability before anything else.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.