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

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.

Let work itself be the ambition.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

So it’s really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.