Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose. 

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. 

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.