If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

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.

Grace enters the soul where love lies serene.

I guess not being ‘just like them’ is a crime.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.