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

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.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

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.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

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

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