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

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.