Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

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

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.

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?

My husband is my most valuable resource.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.