Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

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.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves

Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better.

I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.