... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole

Everyone you meet won't wish you success that's why you work for it and give your life your best.

One look at the stranger staring back re-convinced me that I had to be dreaming. It was me, but at the same time completely not me.

To wish bad things for someone else, is like looking for high blood pressure. Because strong people fall, but stand up again.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.