Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

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.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.