Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.