Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Determination + Persistence = Success

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.