I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.