The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Nothing will work unless you do.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

You have to be someone.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Success is not a stop sign.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Competition is a sin.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I have goals.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Never complain and never explain.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

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.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.