"Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased."

“Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.”

“If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.”

“In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.”

“In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.”

“As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.”

“Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.”

“You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.”

“I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.”