I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

They who ask for no sign shall have many.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

An evil gain equals a loss.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.