Quotes By Melinda Gates

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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