But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

I'm going now. My time has come.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.