When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, ' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO.

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.