"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."
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"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
"Success is not a stop sign."
"All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls."
"Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege."
"Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
"If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness.""
"I love you to pieces, distraction, etc."
"The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream."
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."
"To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet."
"The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast."
"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?"
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
"I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs."
"I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world."
"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
"Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject."
"That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed."