A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.