If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

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.

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

Those who were known as sultans and emperors are gone to dust. Their palaces are now known as ruins. This is ultimate power and commands of nature.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)