A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we should at least start with the ability to feed ourselves, and the millions of Africans who don't have it.

You have to wake up every day ready to start again.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. And where all three are present, you stand a very good chance of making a go of it.

Without a dream you'll not get anywhere.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.