Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

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

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

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

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

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.