I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

I was stained by failure.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.