However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.