Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

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.