I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

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

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

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.

For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?