“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.”

If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.

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.

Death I believe has many forms. It is a shapeshifter. But amongst all the forms it has, love is my favorite.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.