The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Love only fails when we fail to love.

Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead.

I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.

I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

You are strangely troublesome.