If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."

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

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.