No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

When you do not have your clear definition of what success looks like, you tend to feel unsuccessful every time other people talk about their success.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

Tears of my Hard Work, are enough to fill the Ocean of my Dreams.

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.