Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

It is human nature to strive.

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

And so I’ll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

Fighters are never who they appear to be

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied