It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

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

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

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