Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adap….

Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values..

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

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

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

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

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 -….

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You ha….

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding..

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..

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward..

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

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I stil….

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..

The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation..

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it]..

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees..

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the….

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

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

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day..