We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

The time for change is now.

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

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.

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