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Our credo says that, in the end, we want to drive positive change in the lives of our stakeholders and communities across the world, enabling them to rise.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.

I chose to... Float in contentment and forgive all the deep pains Accept the shadows of my queer past … Encounter faith and that magic love from within Enrich my spirit with graceful emotions of who I am … Listen to the essence of life and collect its charm Cultivate the fascinating practice of spiritual well-being (Excerpted from Mindfulness, chapter Resilience)

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.

I've been coasting down these open roads alone for so, so long— traveling the roads less traveled on my own, taking in the scenery. But, now I am here to s(t)ay... you can ride in my sidecar, any day.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

Getting a second life is one thing. Making a better life, that's the trick.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

I'm so proud to do it - there's nothing else I do that compares to 'Children in Need.'

The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.

A person made time for people and things they cared about.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.