I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

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

We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession.

Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.