Dignity is more important than wealth.

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

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Don't be afraid to live the life you've been given. Some of us don't t have the chance . . . . don't waste yours.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10, 000 people.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

I don't need to be on top to know I'm worth it

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.