“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.”

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

As students I am sure you have several dreams. If you are determined to move ahead nothing can stop you. Our youth are talented.

A youthful nation like ours must leave an impact in the entire world.

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.

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father’s brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.

The thing that’s wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.

I think imparting sex education to children is important.

The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.