Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

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.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

No ordinary effort stops the wheel.In sleep it spins without resistance.Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

I'm, like, y'know, I didn't have a problem doing one scene in Dude, Where's My Car? I'm certainly not going to have a problem doing one scene in a [Martin] Scorsese movie!

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.