May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

The time for change is now.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same.

Love. The great destroyer of worlds.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.