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

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

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.

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.