There is something beyond handouts that can make a difference in global poverty. I believe we can make a difference. I've seen that come from loaning someone as little as $25.

You would've thought we had given them $1 million.

If you empower a man, you empower one person. If you empower a woman, you empower her entire family. When women get together, miracles happen.

When wealth is measured monetarily, it is often those performing the measuring who are poor.

The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.