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"One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
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"Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations, to my understanding this definition better fits sex industry."

"India will develop when our villages prosper. By improving the economy of villages we can power our country's growth."

"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."

"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."

"I don't know how - it is a question of process."

"Develop your prayer language, increase your prayer coverage."

"Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission."

"Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before."

"The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits."

"India's strength lies in her villages. Our aim is to bridge the differences between rural and urban India. We want our villages to have all the facilities that are there in the cities."
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"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."


"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."


"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."


"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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