I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. . . Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.
It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.