Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.