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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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?

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love the sea.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

God is everywhere.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Small aim is a crime.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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