“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.”

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.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

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.

These elections won’t be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.

It’ easy to find information on Google guru but that’s not equal to gaining knowledge.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.