Democracy is a universal value

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.

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

There is wealth within the sound of your voice.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March