It is not power that corrupts but fear.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

Kindness can change the lives of people.