If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.

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.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

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.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

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?