"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

"Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it"

"Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change."