Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

Let the dataset change your mindset

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life.

When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.

Definition is a choice.

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.