Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

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

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

Only love can touch the heart.

You don’t have to be perfect to have the perfect life.

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.