Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Propelled by freedom of faith gender equality and economic justice for all India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament not by Jesus but by Paul that say women should not adorn themselves they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Moreover the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore or in the mountains or sometimes in a quiet forest I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

At different times I taught humanities social sciences and pre-vocational education.

I have said it on several occasions several times from this podium that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field that can sometimes play against you.