Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

If you're being attacked from all sides, it's possible you're doing something right; it's also possible that you are doing everything wrong.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.