When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

Healthy home, healthy life.

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.

I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .