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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To pray is to make petition.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

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To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

I've not actually been on too many dates.

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.