It sounds so simple, it’s practically a cliché. Yet at the end of the day, after reading memos, drafting proposals and working with community leaders, these six words, out of all the megabytes of information I consume each day, are what I remember most vividly.

Because I’ve been hearing them for years, and they never fail to inspire me, whether it’s from an at-risk teenager who wants a better life or a hard worker who wants to start her own business.