Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.