People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you’re smart, you’ll end up as a comedian. If you’re not, you’ll end up as a clown.

Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.