It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.