I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.