In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
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?
Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades’ time, original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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 for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.