So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.