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?

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.

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

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.

Intentions, whether good or bad, that don’t reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.

Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Killing is killing, whether done for duty, profit or fun

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

We must never shed tears That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.