"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."

"I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present."

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

"Angry people are not always wise."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."