Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

He glanced again at her tightly drawn face as he parked and understood, with sudden, startling clarity, that if they failed to find Tanya alive, then Bella, too, would be lost.

Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice." Rinpoche

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

We are the change we're waiting for.

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.