If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.