Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Nothing endures but change.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.