From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

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

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Politics have no relation to morals.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.