Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.