The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

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?"

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.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Always look on the bright side of life.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.