Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

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.

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.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.

For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator’s precision

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

To be worn out is to be renewed.

It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.