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

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.

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 had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

God is great.God is amazing.

The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

To love is an active verb.

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.