The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.

I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

I remember Mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God.

This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

The simplest is always the most difficult.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.