Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

The time for change is now.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

A positive attitude will stimulate creative thinking and constructive problem-solving.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.