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

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.

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.

Lose yourself in the music, not the fog

If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book

The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.