I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.