“The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women”

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

We can’t control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.