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.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

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

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.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

Every man at three years old is half his height

Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.