I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.
The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.
Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.
It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.
Never. . . stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.
Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.
Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.