“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”

“Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.”

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

“We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.”

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

“It is time to move forward together. Stronger for the bitter experiences we have shared, wiser for the suffering inflicted on us and more compassionate for having the capacity to forgive. For all its faults and cruelties, Fiji remains a country full of promise and hope simply demonstrated by the goodwill that has endured and the love we have for this land that is our home.”

“Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the ‘knowledge worker’ and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world’s people to dream, to imagine, and to create.”

“We all have the capacity to be the best, we just need to use the capacity the best.”

“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”