"Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change."