[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.