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

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.