I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

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

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.