My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.
What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
Life only gets harder, but you gotta get stronger.