"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."

"I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future."

"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."

"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."

"Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization."

"I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College."

"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class."

"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."