With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Democracy is hard work.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.