My husband is my most valuable resource.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.