Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Writing thats not working for a living.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.