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.

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.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.