Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.