The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

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.

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.

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

All mothers are working mothers.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.