Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.