The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.