One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

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

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.

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

Did he know she could barely think, let alone speak, for awareness of proximity of his fingers?Of course he knew. He was a rake. This is what he did.

Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

I just kill them because they were monsters and demons.

The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.

The human is the only guilty animal.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.