God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.