Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
