To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. 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. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.