An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them — which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.