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 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 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.

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.

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.