We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

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

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

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?

I spent my youth and my most formative years in Africa. I left Africa when I was about 20, 21, and when Mo says a great African, I was really moulded by my African experience, although I had the good fortune that by the time I was 24 I had studied and worked on three continents - Africa, the US, and Europe.