It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.