You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

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.

Sometimes people forget the bridge that connected them to success.

Meditation nourishes the mind.

While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

Trust your instincts above all else. They are byproducts of natural laws and do not sway to your whims, worries and wonders.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.