No great thing comes without a curse.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.