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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

For everything you have missed,

you have gained something else,

and for everything you gain,

you lose something else.

There has to be evil

so that good can prove its purity above it.

You only learn who has been swimming naked

when the tide goes out.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Some day I shall be President.

I have always found that plans are useless,

but planning is indispensable.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more

if only they knew they were slaves.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation's wounds.

In the end,

you’re measured not by how much you undertake but

by what you finally accomplish.

When I took over as president,

I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it,

the more I realised that it does not prevent t

he president of India from giving the nation a vision.

So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and

in legislative assemblies;

everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and

I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The key is to make it through the storms,

because that’s how you reach greatness.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;

Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

The more a thing tends to be permanent,

the more it tends to be lifeless.

I can't want it more than you do.

The secret of getting ahead

is getting started

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.