We 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?

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

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

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

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.