“Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.”

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – ­which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.

There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

It is India’s responsibility to display its strength to the World through knowledge and innovations.

I am proud to be from an ideology. Our ideology is that the Nation is bigger than party. We will live and die for the nation. Our ideology is not about aspiring for posts, it’s based of sacrifice.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn’t be bogged down by books.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Social media changed my thought process and connected me to the rest of the world. And as I started connecting, the world started accepting me as I was. Nothing could be more satisfying.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Poverty is a cruel disease but curable with intelligence and hard work.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.