"Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country."

"Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant."

"Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination."

"You will tire of your foolishness because I love you and though not completely aware of it, you did say Yes ."

"The present is a product of the past, but it is also the seed for the future."

"Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true?"

"The sky itself will have to be the roof of the auditorium of the future, I will have to forego the car and even the airplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge."

"The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality, directed towards God is known as devotion."

"YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye."

"Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!"

"When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society."

"In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries."

"I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support."

"We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing."

"Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area."

"America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy."

"Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain."

"Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal."

"I'm a father; that's what matters most. "Nothing "matters more."

"I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower."

"We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader."

"The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people."

"You have to live in the future, not the past."

"We spend more on cows than the poor."

"If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education."

"You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken."

"I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty."

"We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another."

"Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control."

"Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows."

"When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle."

"A characterless man is like a pot with many holes, useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace."

"What is needed today is that we should lead a life of good quality. The fostering of sterling character and good conduct is the need of the world. Once we have greater numbers of such people of good quality, the country and the world will become prosperous and peaceful."

"If character is lost, all is lost."

"Character is to be sought more than intellect."

"Base all educational efforts on building up of the character of the students, and then you can confidently think of rising on in the super-structure of curricula."

"The harder the circumstances, the more trying the environment, the stronger are those who come out of those circumstances."

"Do not allow any circumstances to affect your faith in God, who is your strength and solace."

"Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging."

"Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality."

"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."

"It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present."

"Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries."

"When something really matters, you should never give up or give in."

"I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally."

"While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support."

"To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots."

"If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down."

"People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents: to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world."

"While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time, and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him."