I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Make your life a story worth telling.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Speak the language of the person you want to become.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.