He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

The girls from Tanzania were all between 17 and 25, they had little or no education. At the orphanage they would learn how to feed and clean the children and put them to bed. If a kid said his stomach hurt, one of the girls might hit them.

One of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience, was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?...

If I had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: "Educate girls.

We're excited about it (the championship). We put ourselves in position to be in the game tonight, and the girls just did a good job throughout the tournament.

It was an awesome match. The girls played at a great level and I couldn't be prouder in our first match of the season. They fought every step of the way.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.