Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself.

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Everyone needed an obsession.

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.