Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

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