We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

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.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

The fact that Disney bought Maker Studios doesn't really change anything for me.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

Brothers are first a bother then a true friend.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.