Mohammed Jawad Ali

“I think what I loved about America—and still do—is the fact that it remains one of the places where if you had merit or capability, you had a chance to make it happen. It may not be that everybody with capability becomes a great success, but anybody willing to work hard and to be diligent has a fair chance. The United States has less of an issue of who you are, whose son you are, how rich you are as a requirement for success. So, you can be successful from the street, if you had the capability.”
― Peter Casey, The Story of TATA: 1868 to 2021

“I would love to see the disparity between the rich and poor [in India] reduced. If you have a billion people that should be our strength. —Ratan Tata, interview with Damien Whitworth, 2006”
― Peter Casey, The Story of TATA: 1868 to 2021

“Where is it,’ thought Raskolnikov. ‘Where is it I’ve read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he’d only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!... How true it is! Good God, how true! Man is a vile creature!... And vile is he who calls him vile for that,’ he added a moment later.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Originals: Crime and Punishment

“The 18th century Sufi Shaykh Ali Al-Jamal, said, "If people knew how many secrets and benefits are to be found in need, they would have no other need than to be in need.”
― Michael Sugich, Signs on the Horizons: Meetings with Men of Knowledge and Illumination