If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.

We have to believe that the thought we have is piecing together for us the thing we are thinking of and is actually carrying it closer and closer to us!

Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.