We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.