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

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.

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.

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.

Life moves on but i want to live alone.

Leadership is something I was born with.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.