It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

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.

Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.

Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

I don't think anyone's normal.

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.