Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

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.

I have not failed. I have just found 10, 000 ways it will NOT work.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.