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

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.

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.