At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

Not all developing countries are the same.

You were built for this moment.

The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.

It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before, and to use it in our favor.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.