I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.