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

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.

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.

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.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.