Archived Quotes

Sometimes, when I see

my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own,

I wish I were a child.

The desire of gold is not for gold.

It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal;

it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon,

and every line of his writing,

deserves reading,

as it is the sense of France.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself.

Great men are they who see that

spiritual is stronger than any material force

that thoughts rule the world.

One moment can change a day,

one day can change a life,

and one life can change the world.

Just do it right the first time.

Wherever I go,

as long as I get a hot vegetable dish,

I am okay.

If I am in Gujarat,

I have Gujarati food.

If it's Shillong,

it's northeastern.

I'm tired of being treated like a second

class citizen.

Never depend on a single income.

Make investments to create a second source.

I have a very strong work ethic.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

You're wasting my time.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for

the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.

When it is said that the institution exists,

and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way,

I can understand and appreciate the saying.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go,

what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother

and to marry Rachel?

The solution to my problem was only days away

in the hands of a tough, shrewd,

courageous man called Branch Rickey,

the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Don’t Panic.

As a child of God,

I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

We should not give up and

we should not allow the

problem to defeat us

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam