The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons.

Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product.

People have a tendency to sometimes doubt when you tell them what you are going to do. But they can never deny the things you actually do.

Self-love is crucial for the betterment of our lives and for a higher quality of life.

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.