I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Happiness: the feeling of being alive.

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.

I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero.

I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.