People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.