When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

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?

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.