This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Audiences can be very judgmental.

The passions are the voice of the body.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.