I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.

One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.