The status quo cannot work.

I think the generational change is going to be so important for Africa that we really should encourage and push it as much as we can, because some of these younger men and women, who are men and women of their times, and are also connected to the rest of the world, wouldn't even know how to behave in the way some of the old leaders do.

Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

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?

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?