If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Being a Queen will Always be in Style!

In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don’t like.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Each draws to his best-loved.