“All people should strive to learn before they die: what they are running from, and to, and why.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
“…there is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”
“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.”
