No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

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

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.

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

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.

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

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.