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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

A man can wear pink if he has confidence, if he believes in himself and knows he's man enough to do it.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.