Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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.

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.