Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

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.

Read non-interesting books!

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

People find a way in which they can say something.