We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

It is very easy to defeat someone but it is very hard to win someone.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.