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.

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

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.

We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

I love human aggression. I like it in myself, I think. As far as something to get out, I believe that everybody has it in them, so I like to be an outlet.