The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

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

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.

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

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.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.

Practice honest self-reflection to learn and better who you are

Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees.

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical.