I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.