After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

When I was young, I was religious.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.