My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success is what I make of it.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Craft has always been a basic activity in human society, in fact it is considered more cohesive and permeating in human relationships than even language, for it can penetrate many barriers to communication. Particularly has this been true of the older societies such as those in Asia, South and Central America, Africa and countries like Greece or Spain, where aspects of the ancient cultures still continue to produce powerful impressions that almost seem ageless.

Don't blame yourself too harshly. No matter how hard you try, you can never bring back the past, never turn yesterday into tomorrow. See, today's Sunrise was real, so was the Sunset. We will fall asleep but time will keep moving. And tomorrow, it will give us yet another sunrise.

Clasping Kunti's hands in her thin, old, ivory-hued fingers, Gandhari whispered, Calm down, calm down, O Mother of the Pandavas! Calm down. Time moves in cycles, circling like the wheels of the chariot. Our life cycle is shrinking. Soon it will be just a dot. And finally even that dot will merge into the void.

Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.

Life is immense, comprehensive and dynamic. It includes spirit and matter and idealism and pragmatism and rotates round the axis of the noble and the ignoble. Life strives for higher ends. It is a mission, a service, and finally worship.

It is alright if you have no idea of the past. What is dangerous is, if you have a wrong idea of the past.

Can we function in life without memory? History is the national memory. How individuals learn form memory is different. If the same thing happens to three individuals they will learn perhaps different things from that. So history also offers different lessons for different individuals.