When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.