| A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. |
| I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
| Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain. |
| No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger |
| Aadhaar is critical plumbing for the Indian state to leapfrog developed countries in creating a modern welfare state... and meet our tryst with destiny. |
| Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other. |
| To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. |
| We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. |
| In a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. |
| Italians come to ruin mostly in three ways, women, gambling, farming. My family chose the slowest one. |
