Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

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.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.