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

We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

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.

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