We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.

To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving.

Tiggers don't like honey.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Your wedding will not be what you think it is going to be, no matter what you think it is going to be.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.