Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.
If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.
Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.