The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.

You gotta know that People will say a million negative things about you before they mention 1 good thing, don't be surprise if they never said that 1 good thing about you.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.