Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

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.

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

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

Don’t dedicate all your resources to helping others invest in their calling. Rather, invest in yourself as well

We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

But you can do one, you can do the other, or you can do both - meaning fight it out but be in a place that's more comfortable.

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

Fashion is like eating. You shoudn't stick with the same menu.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.