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

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

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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?

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

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

I love the sea.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

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

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

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

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

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

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.

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.

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