Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.