Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

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.

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

Find your truth and make your existence real as you choose it. Your creation is your own greatest gift. (Neings of Light via Joules)

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.