I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

When you’re gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?

Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.