When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

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

Time consciousness is the key to time conversion.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Today I found an old friend.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much