After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

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

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.