Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

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

You will never be lost to me, Selinne.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.

When I'm not in a relationship, I shave one leg. That way, when I sleep, it feels like I'm with a woman.

I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.