We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

My son has died of AIDS.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.