"Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy."

“Goodbye don't mean gone.”

“I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.”

“When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, "Wow, I really have come a long way." Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it's often in terms of comfort.”

“I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.”

“Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.”

Source : Bradford Torrey, “Not So In Haste, My Heart”

“Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press

“it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.”