"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times."

"I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts."

"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked."

"Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."

"Rather be dead than cool."

"I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed."