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

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.

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

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

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.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in