profane, not the shrine I have raised in the cleft of my heart.

The price of greatness is responsibility. 

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Integrity is the premium of your character.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

Every time she said some thing is cooking, I thought she was in the kitchen.

If you are a late riser, you may miss out on a lot of things in life.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.