Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey.

Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

I will preach with my brush.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.