I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all, " she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.