Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.

Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.