People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.