Kellie Duckworth

“A Princeton University scholar, Susan Fiske, has used scans to show that the brains of high-achieving people see images of poor people and process them as if they were not humans but things.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It’s far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.”
― Lu Xun

“Let’s recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn’t a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity