“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”
“Leadership is about capacity – the capacity of leaders to listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own values and visions clearly but not impose them. Leadership is about setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and initiating change that makes for substantial improvement rather than managing change.”
“…there is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls.”
“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.”
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people – one of these is roots, the other is wings.”
“Being human is difficult. Becoming human is a lifelong process. To be truly human is a gift.”
“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”
“Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.”
“While Australia was the first country to give women the right to stand as well as to vote for the national parliament, Finland was the second. And Finland immediately elected nineteen women to its parliament (in 1907) while Australia had essentially given women the right to stand but not to sit. It was not until 1943 that the first women took their seats in Australia’s national parliament.”
