We haven’t even reached 0.00000001% of where we want to reach. There is so much more to do. We want to make sure that no child should ever be on the mercy of anyone else for his/her education.

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Until you won't step into the creepy road, you will never be able to tread a smooth path for yourself.

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.

You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.