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.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

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?

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.