Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success.

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life,  Than living someone else’s life.

Jesus Christ is our spring board to promotion and prosperity.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.

Some people only dream about touring around the world with their friends and that's exactly what we're doing, and we could never take that for granted.