My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.

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

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

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.

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

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.