I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.