After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
Melinda Gates

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
Melinda Gates

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.
Melinda Gates

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.
Melinda Gates

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

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

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

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

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
Melinda Gates

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
Melinda Gates