Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.

Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.