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.
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.
Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
