One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.