-
“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.”
-
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.”
Source : Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
-
“Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.”
-
“The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.”
-
“There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.”
Source : The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the
-
“The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.”
Source : "The Arts and the Creation of Mind". Book by Elliot W. Eisner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002. 
-
“Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.”
Source : "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.
-
“Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.”
