When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

Give love and share happiness with the people around you, and never give up fighting for what you believe in.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know how and when, but I knew that I would fight it.

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.