Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.