When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?