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

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

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.