I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.