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

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.

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.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

No more, ' I told him. 'No more running in the wrong direction... You run to me'.

We are all so happy. If we only could realize it.

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.