Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

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

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.