When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

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.

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.

You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

Between us what it was? i couldn't fathom, till she was gone.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Women are well on the road to equality but we haven't arrived yet.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.