The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

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.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

Have a good looking is not worthy if you don't act just like your appearances.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.