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

As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.

The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.

Without a dream you'll not get anywhere.