“What is right is more important than who is right.”

I think you have to be what you are. Don’t try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

Young people need models, not critics.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.

In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.

Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.