Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

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.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

I want to chase the butterflies.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.