“How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.”

“You should focus on being more interested than interesting.”

“In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.”

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

“As is so often the case, the supposedly insignificant understood the psychology of the strong, while the strong didn't have a clue about the other.”

“If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly.”

“They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my face. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce...I concluded that if I could only nudge the world a little bit, maybe that would be enough.But nudging isn't enough.”