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?

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.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

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

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

The right tools are just as important as the makeup itself.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I think we have gotten through those brain dead moments on both our parts. Now we just love to race one another hard and clean.

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.