There is no trust more sacred than the_x000D_ _x000D_ one the world holds with children.
Interpretation
Trusting relationships with children are paramount and should be valued above all.
Kofi Annan emphasizes the unique and profound bond of trust that exists between adults and children. This trust is not only sacred but also forms the foundation for nurturing, educating, and guiding the next generation, highlighting the responsibility adults hold in protecting and honoring this relationship.
In practice
In a speech about education, one could cite this quote to emphasize the trust in teacher-student relationships.
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.
Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what β and who β we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.
Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.
If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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