But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Zero ground is the beginning... sometimes you just don't have the normal productivity day.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

One day I'll be appreciated for what I do instead being held back for what I don't do.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper."

Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.