The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

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.

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?