There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.

Being on the inside could be an addiction

... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.

I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

The best servant does his work unseen.

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities