Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.