Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.
Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.
Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
Empowering women is key to building a future we want
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
Even when I was Miss World, I did all the dressing up I could, so the pretty face thing was done. But it was never about just looking pretty with the crown, I always wanted to make it more than that - I wanted to make it about beauty with a purpose. So I carried that into my films as well.
The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.