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.

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.

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.

Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.