What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life