Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

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

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.