As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

I think increasingly consumers are judging the quality of their travel and hotel experiences by their ability to have access to basic technologies, including Wi-Fi.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Most busy people want to mentor someone great

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.