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.

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

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

There's no me if there's no me and you.

The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.