“We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.”

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.

I did not get an opportunity to die for the country, but I have got an opportunity to live for the country.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace.

I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.

Shut the door, Wales.

Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.