“Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for women.”

“More than 1 billion people do not have access to sufficient water to meet their basic sanitation needs.”

“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”

“God gave women breasts to admire, and a heart-shaped ass as a consolation when they walk away.”

“During the years of struggling to make partner, he had sometimes entertained the comical notion that making partner would imbue him with new powers, like a budding superhero who had been bitten by a radioactive spider. It appeared that any superpowers he had gained did not include the ability to pick up women in bars.”

“Let me give you some advice," said Trace. "Your wife is right, you are wrong, even when you're right, so you might as well apologize right off.”

“Today, I look forward and I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.”