Not all developing countries are the same.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there’s a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control