We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

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.

Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.

Elevate your mind and you elevate your world.

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. He had lost all he possessed of worldly property

Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.