“Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

The time is always right to do right.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Modi implemented welfare schemes, and U.P. became its major beneficiary in barely two years.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

Mobilizing all the youth to develop Africa. It’s our time. I hope the world is paying attention.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

It’s important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.