As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

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?

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

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.

One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war in Iraq. That really was very difficult and very painful. Every fibre in my body felt it was wrong. I spoke to leaders, we spoke to people, we tried... we couldn't stop it... and we see the results.

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