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.

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

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

Nothing sexy about pregnancy.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.