President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

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.

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.

If practice makes you perfectshouldn't good behavior be addedto the curriculum

But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.