I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.

If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Men are never brave, are they?

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay.

It's not the price but it's the value of the thing that making them important

...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow