If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.