Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Reform is a process, and not an event.