"The greatest failure is not to try."

"Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others."

"Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances."

"History is the best teacher, if we bother to learn from it."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."