Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

I am a woman and, second, I have been to war. I am a combat veteran. This is not a war on women, and anytime Democrats use the word 'war,' they need to do it to honor our servicemen and women.

We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.