The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

My business is to prevent the future.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Africa is on the rise.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

The American people have not become heartless.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.