Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.