We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

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.

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.

I know it's going to be a long wait.. But I chose to wait, even if its going to be forever..

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.