The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

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.

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?

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

Dignity is more important than wealth.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.