If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

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.

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.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.