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

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

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

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.