But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

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.

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

There is something indecent in words .

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.