The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

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.

No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations

Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.