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

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough

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