Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I stand out not because I am six feet tall, But because I feel six feet tall.

I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered by another human will.

All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.

To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational. No-one thinks a bond's value will soar to the moon.

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.