Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. 

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to recover impotence.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

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

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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