"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."

"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."

"The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure."

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

"Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can."

"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."