I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.

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.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

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.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.