Jim Yong Kim

Hope is a moral choice.

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.