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.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.