If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

I'm only the messenger.

John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really proud of and I think I'm putting out a great product.

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.