Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.