The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

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.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there " you will know it to be true.

So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.

When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.