Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

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.

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.