We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.

When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.

When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers-in-arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.