Being queen is overrated.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.