“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite—the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
“Character is doing the right thing when no-one is watching.”
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves — to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“Women and girls hardly ever fight the world’s wars, but they often suffer the most. Increasingly, they are the direct targets of fighting, when sexual violence is deliberately used as a tactic of warfare. And yet fewer than 10 percent of the people who negotiate peace deals are women, and only about three dozen individuals have been convicted and jailed by international war crimes tribunals for committing or commanding widespread sexual violence. Sexual violence in conflict is NOT inevitable. It can be stopped.”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
“In the networking world, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
