The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

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.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

My style is constantly changing.

I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.