...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

Make way for the positive day.

If you're not invited to the party, throw your own.

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

When I call on Jesus, all things are possible.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'