Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles?""I just told you. You're my miracle.

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

The only water in the forest is the River.

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.