Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

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

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

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

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