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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

You have to go out and make the world a better place.

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

There’s a level of service that we could provide when we’re just at Harvard that we can’t provide for all of the colleges, and there’s a level of service that we can provide when we’re a college network that we wouldn’t be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.