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

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

"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."

"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."

"It is a quiet truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny."

"I have the courage of my convictions."

"It is a profound truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."