We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

The time for change is now.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care.

Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

Would you rather be right or free?

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

I like some superhero movies, but I have to say that they all feel the same to me. I've seen them a million times. They're all the same movie.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.