As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

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

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.