One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.