India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.
People to people contact is essential for Nations to come closer.
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!
We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.
The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.
National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education).
You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.
Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.
In this era, I-ways are as essential as Highways...We need both Information Ways and Highways.
E governance can bring minimum government and maximum governance. It is easy, effective and economic governance. It brings empowerment, equity and efficiency of the economy. It is a very useful field that can be the greatest problem solver of the people.
Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.
It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!
Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.
Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!
Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.
The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.
They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!
'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!
Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.
If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.
Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone`s agenda. It should be a people's movement.
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
We need people to be alert and thinking for themselves and connected to each other and connected to that sense of hope and empowerment and radical chutzpah that the founding generation had and intended us to have.
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
