To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

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.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ask others what they think of your ideas and plans – Now, this one is the most interesting way of failing.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.

The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.