Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benev…

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them …

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is sup…

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain …

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the worl…

- Maya Soetoro-Ng