Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

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.

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.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Last word in lonesome is me.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.