“You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.”

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

“The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.”

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“A nation’s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.”

 “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.”

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.”