Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.