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.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given is our society. Your education and your mother and father they tell you this is how it is but then you hit adolescence and you think 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children to give them a decent education.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck like getting across the street.

You can't have a university without having free speech even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly I focus on flying.

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

Sometimes your dreams come true.

Sometimes you follow your dreams. I say to the young people 'If you have a dream chase it.'

In a couple sometimes one or both people have to give up their personal life dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.