Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Men are what their mothers made them.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

My life is a struggle.

We live in ugly times.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Good luck has its storms.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.