Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.