One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

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

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

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

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons...

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

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

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

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

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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