On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

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.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.