[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

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.

A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened.

You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.