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

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Human beings have enormous resilience.