To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

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.

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.

At the dawn of light, the sacred path is made visible.

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes.

She was no longer theirs. She was his. And he was hers. And this was their world.

I watch the PGA, not the LPGA. I like the players on the PGA better.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.