I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.