Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

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

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Maybe it's okay to still be a kid every once in a while.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.