I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.