Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured