Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Understand: You should be radiating confidence, not arrogance or disdain.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.