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.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

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.

Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.