From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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.

I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in humanity.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

It's really cool to be around people that are younger than you who are really cool with being open about stuff.

If you're sexy and you know it put your hands up in the air. Put your hands up in the air, girl, put your hands up.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

To me, anything goes. But that's me.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.