You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Lead your life with love and friendship

Death is the beginning of something.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.