Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.

Any mind that lacks the spirit of gratitude knows nothing about the feeling of happiness.

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.