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

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

There is no 'way to peace, ' there is only 'peace.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

After all, you are a hero and everything.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

The great put the little on the hooke.

I know what the structure of the language is.

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.