“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

I believed less is what I needed, what I tried to achieve; I thought less is more, better, the minimalistic beauty of life.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

You can’t always get what you want.

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.