Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.