Leo Szilard

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.