सुप्रभात! Quotes

Why need I volumes,

if one word suffice?

Leadership is solving problems.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is

the day you have stopped leading them.

No man succeeds without

a good woman behind him.

Wife or mother,

if it is both,

he is twice blessed indeed.

Technological progress has merely provided us with

more efficient means for going backwards.

Physics is like sex: sure,

it may give some practical results,

but that’s not why we do it.

Human beings, regrettably,

are inherently unequal.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin,

but, of course,

society demands something more than this.

Politics is for the present,

but an equation is for eternity.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is

the influence of good women.

Things do not happen.

Things are made to happen.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress;

therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken

until after they shall have deliberated

upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

The only thing you have in your life is time.

The key is to make it through the storms,

because that’s how you reach greatness.

I believe everything happens for a reason.

The reason why men do not obey us,

is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.

Fail at it.

Try again.

Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble,

those who never mount the high wire,

This is your moment,

Own it.

Let us remember:

One book,

one pen,

one child,

and one teacher

can change

the world.

We can’t help everyone,

but everyone can help someone.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.