If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

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.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

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

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