What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

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.

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.

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

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

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.