To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

We haven’t even reached 0.00000001% of where we want to reach. There is so much more to do. We want to make sure that no child should ever be on the mercy of anyone else for his/her education.

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

Strength is sufficient grace

If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams?

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.