People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out the poor, and the less poor will drive out the more poor, unless protective measures are instituted right at the beginning. In such cases, the nonpoor reap the benefits of all that is done in the name of the poor.

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.