So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

Direct experience is the only way.

With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.