A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

You must graciously handle every challenge.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.

America, you must be born again!