Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Human progress comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

No technical knowledge can outweigh knowledge of the humanities.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

Humanity is waiting for something other than blind imitation of the past. If we want truly to advance a step further, if we want to turn over a new leaf and really set a new man afoot, we must begin to turn mankind away from the long and desolate night of violence.