Quotes

Singapore is like a little aircraft. If the pilots don't know how to fly it, it's going to crash.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life building up this country.

The impossible is often the untried.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

To the young, I offer the wisdom of my age. To the old, I offer the enthusiasm of the young.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but no one has ever accused me of being a soft man.

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.

It is a general rule in the most dangerous of adventures to regard no word of warning.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance.

There are many, many types of love in this world, but there are just as many, many types of sorrow.

Reading is one of the greatest joys in life, and when you’ve finally finished a book, you feel like you’ve lost a friend.

The history of the world is a tragedy, but we don’t have to play a tragic role in it.