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.

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.

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.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

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.

Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

There is no Soul, where there is give and take. Wherever there is give and take, it is a stock market.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

It's more like it is now than it ever has been.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.