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

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.

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.

Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.