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.

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'.

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.

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

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind?

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.