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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.