“I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don’t run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.”

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

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.

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don’t see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: ‘Choose ye this day.’

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.