I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?

She looked mean, but I think that was her natural resting face.

There is no weather in malls.

New York is a great place to feel inspired all the time.

It's always darkness before the dawn.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.

The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.