For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

I have understood now that after feelings of disappointment subside, and one gains perspective, these experiences can change our ways of thinking, and bring us face to face with existential issues. When that happens, we need to embrace the events and analyze how we responded - did we allow them to merely roll over us like waves, or did we dive deeper into the matter and use it to gain insights into ourselves?

It is a story I never tire of telling, because to me it is the perfect coming together to science and spirituality-the twin driving forces of my life.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!