The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

We do not want to just define issues; we want to help to create solutions

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Talent is a by-product of education the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

If it takes lots of patience, sacrifice and devotion to achieve the thing you've desired, for sure you have set your targets high and you're going through immense pain to reach there.Just don't quit.

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.