What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.

The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.