What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Take No as a question.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.

One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.