Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.