I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus 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.

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.

The human heart is a dark forest

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.