Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.

You know the facts about me about which even i am unknown...

When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.