If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.