The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

My father has always been such a doer.

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.

I lead a multi-faith life.

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.