"We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans."

"I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do."

"It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution."

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

"Wisdom principle 6 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 50."

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."

"Wisdom principle 50 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 1."