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

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

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

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.