One life is worth no more or less than any other

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.

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

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.