You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.

Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.