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

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way… but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you… only knowledge.

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.

You can make anything by writing.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.