Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

There is no education like adversity.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I make pop culture.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.