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

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.

Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

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?