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.

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

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.

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

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.

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events.

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy, when she entered his life like an epiphany.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.