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

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.

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

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

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.