What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

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.

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.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.