The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.
Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.