With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

What I learned in Guinea is that we are all responsible for the state of our world. The world - and the system by which we trade, share, cooperate and conflict - is clearly not working. We are only as strong as our weakest members. UNICEF is run at every level by strong, relentlessly energetic, deeply capable people who use that strength, energy and capability to help those who need it most: the weakest, most disadvantaged women and children of our world. All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, ‘Does this fit in with how I see what the work is for? Is this going to be something interesting and valuable to contribute to the world?’

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.