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

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.

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.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.