I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

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.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

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

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

my only complaints are two:that I didn't make myself readyfor you sooner in life, thatI can't give you better, Love you more.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.

Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.