Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help 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.

As long as we consider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.

Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want.

To do is to be.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.