Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Knowledge lets you swim and wisdom lets you fly.

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

Life is a book. When one chapter ends, the next one begins...

You always have a choice. Choose to be splendid.

Curiosity is a sickness of want to understanding.

I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.