Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

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 are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.