Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job.

I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.