“The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory.”

“there is more strengthin admitting vulnerability than in faking invincibility”

“Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.”

“Leading people is like cookingDont stir too muchIt annoys the ingredientsAnd spoils the food”

“if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by otherschoose your master.”

“Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”