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

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.

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.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Give unto your all everything, for you never know when it will be your last...

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

Marriage is not a game for the young.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.