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.

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.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.