Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

 Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. 

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.