When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

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

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.