Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

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.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.