If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HELP BECOME SUCCESSFUL, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME.

People believe what they want to believe.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.