In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

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

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.

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.

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.

It is easy to hate and blame, but it is divine to love and care.

The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.