I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

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

If you seek the presence of God, you will see the glory of God:

Prophets foretell the future

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

If ever a goal ever needed a game, this is it