Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.

What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.