The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.
Be who you are and be that well.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. . They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
Your best is good enough.
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
The only pushup you won't be able to do is the one you never do.
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.
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