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.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

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

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