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.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.