Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

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.

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.

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

Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?”“Yes, please, ” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.