Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

It is not a fragrant world.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.

Love is blind.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

People can die of mere imagination.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creativity takes courage.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

I'm finally dating. It's fun.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

The only journey is the one within.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.