Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

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

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into your bedroom and then your bed.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far.

Revenge is never a straight line.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

Life is the train and not the station.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.