I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

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.

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once