I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

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.

Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

Missing this interview? It's not the end of the world. It is the beginning.

A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.