Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

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 thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybreath awayand now I want it back

The spiritual soul is sacred.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.