Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.

The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities, their rights too, rather than providing them with ready-made solutions.

We need nature more than nature needs us.

The world is changing considerably and the United Nations must change too. It must become an instrument which responds to the needs of the international community of the year 2000, which will be quite different from that of 1945.

I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.

Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.

In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.