The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

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.

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

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.

The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.