It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.

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.

The reality is that we will continue to hear negative information from many sources. It lies in our will to decide whether to discard them into the waste bin or record them into our brains!

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

It's hard to forget someone whos given so much to remember.