Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

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.

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Powerful people have no regrets.

Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.