The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.