“Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.”

If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India’s economic transformation.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

I haven’t done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

Anyone who believes he is bigger than the system is wrong.

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother’s contribution in his progress and his teacher’s contribution in his growth and development.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.