Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

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.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.