I am not an original thinker&mdashbut I am an original listener.)

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But to be called a murderer by the police!

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans.- Balram Halwai

I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.

La storia della vita di un povero è scritta sul suo corpo, con una matita ben temperata.

you were looking for the key for years/But the door was always open

I was never born and I will never die I do not hurt and cannot be hurt I am invincible, immortal, indestructible.

I am a self-taught entrepreneur. Thats the best kind there is, trust me.

It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning re-election to their golden thrones in heaven year after year.

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy

But I complain about the police the way the rich complain not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

Let animals live like animals let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.