If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.