Gujrati Quotes

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Faith and reason are like two wings on

which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

Find a place

Inside where there's joy,

And the joy will

Burn out the pain.

Life is not a spectator sport.

If you're going to spend

your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on,

in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages

and a city working in harmony

and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

If you can dream it,

you can do it

I believe that if life

gives you lemons,

you should make lemonade...

And try to find somebody

whose life has given

them vodka, and

have a party.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth.

It makes all things alive and significant.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing.

Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

If men were angels,

no government would be necessary.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think

you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe,

it is both possible and, more importantly,

it becomes powerful to come together in

common purpose and common effort.

Success is a lousy teacher.

It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Genius is one percent inspiration

and ninety nine percent perspiration.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence,

and then success is sure.