None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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.
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.
One of the great aspects about [Barack Obama] is who he is as a human.
Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.