“… three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.”
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
“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.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”
“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”
“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”
“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.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
