I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

Letting go facilitates the evolution of the soul.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.