In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

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.

Books can be shelved or packed away, but little girls shouldn't be.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.