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

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.

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

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.