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

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

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.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Truth is always a turning point.

There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

Most of the time, all the separates a class president and a gang leader is numbers: a zip code, a paycheck, or a drug dealer’s phone number.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.