There will be water and food fights everywhere.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Smile more.Laugh more.Love more.Shine more.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

I can't think of anything I can't stand the taste of less than brussels sprouts.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

When one is painting one does not think.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.