Business money is limitless.

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

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

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

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

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

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

ALL LOSSES IN THIS WORLD ARE DUE TO A LACK OF ABILITY. IF YOU WANT TO CURSE SOMETHING, CURSE YOUR OWN WEAKNESS

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.