As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.Collection: God
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.Collection: Hope
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?Collection: Power
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.Collection: Experience
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.Collection: Strength
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.Collection: Death
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Family
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Science
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.Collection: Education
Small aim is a crime; have great aim.Collection: Great
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.Collection: Dreams
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.Collection: Society
Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.Collection: Medical
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.Collection: War
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?Collection: Technology
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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.
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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.
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.
I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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.
India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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.
I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
Small aim is a crime.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
I'm not an expert on the arms race.
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.