We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.