I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

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

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute