Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.