But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

All lives have an equal value.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

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.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

If we dont empower women we dont allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman.

Helping people doesnt have to be an unsound financial strategy.

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

I tell my daughters to have their voice in this world, and it became clear I needed to role model that.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

You don't need an ego when you love someone. You just need a heart.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.

Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

President Obama did something that no Democrat's done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a majority vote in Ohio twice. So I don't really buy that his policy is that unpopular.

I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah! That's how it's done!' But for me it's the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks.

People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.