Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

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

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.