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

The time for change is now.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.