We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process. . . It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.