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.

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.

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.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.