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Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

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.

I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you really start seeing that certain options are closed to you forever: You're not going to be a brain surgeon; you're not going to be a ballerina.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Every two weeks on 'Doctor Who,' the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in. So, it's constantly surprising, and it's a pressure that you relish, actually.

I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

I don't want the public perceiving us as the taunting, provocative ghost hunters. We do that only to the bad spirits who we know are attacking the living.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it's always been a sign for me to go down another path.

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.