Go beyond tolerance to acceptance..

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary..

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it..

Emotion without action is irrelevant..

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the worl….

Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where peace is valued, we must tea….

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change..

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that ch….

We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the ….

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real le….

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the f….

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world….

I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond ….

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified….

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet..