No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Believe is the first step of faith.

He was nobody, but a sweet liar!

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.