Changes are products of intensive efforts.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself.

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Whatever comes, don’t push it away. When it goes, do not grieve.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

Oblivion is not to be hired.