There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

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

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right.

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.