The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine—religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn’t matter; try and do it without empowering women, you can’t do it. The benefits are so many.

Without Christ there is no hope.

If God had begun saving us because we were good, He would of course leave off saving us when we were not good.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

I’ve never known any distress that an hour’s reading didn’t relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

I use the studio as my drug. That’s where I relieve everything at – the studio.