I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

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.

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

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.

We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!

Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

God tests His people through hardship.

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.

An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.