I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.