Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.
Kofi AnnanWe must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
Kofi AnnanWe had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?
Kofi AnnanI think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
Kofi Annan