The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

I laugh a lot and count my blessings.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really proud of and I think I'm putting out a great product.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.