Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

The time for change is now.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

You will feel powerful only when you learn to use the power of love.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

Women are much more honourable than men.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer