The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk: Life Lessons from Here and There

by Sudha Murty

Money comes with expectations and spoils the delicate equilibrium of social work.

I realized then that only diseases and not honesty and integrity are passed down to the next generation through genes.

When you talk about somebody, remember that someone somewhere is also talking about you. People might like to hear gossip to pass time but everybody dislikes a gossipmonger. Eventually, they want to keep such people at a distance.’

It is very difficult to earn trust. It takes years to build and it can be destroyed in an instant by one bad deed. Trust requires an enormous amount of integrity and you have to prove every time that you are worthy of it.