If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

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

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

All lives have an equal value.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

One life is worth no more or less than any other

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.