As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

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.

A country experiences regeneration and change only when it lives by the principles of the kingdom of God

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.