A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.