Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

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

In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

Originality provokes originality.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.