Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

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

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live