I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.