Be honest in your music.
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.
When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember. . . We have met the enemy; and he is us.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.