I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

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.

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.

The only cost to happiness is, choice. Remember, happiness is exclusive of materialism and/or the external worldly influences

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.