If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future