I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

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.

You will be someone else if you did not answer the question “Who am I

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now.

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.