If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

So if the ties that bind ever do come looseTie them in a knot like a hangman's nooseCause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hellBefore I'll see you with someone else.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

The original suit was designed by a guy named Mr. Jay from Hollywood. But nowadays I'm having the suit duplicated. At this point I have about three good suits and about three really raggedy ones.

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.