When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Out of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history then for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt to get to the point of having nothing for me to finally realize Hey what are you fighting with this for? Until then I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

As a mom I know it is my responsibility and no one else's to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.