UN General Assembly
2014

That is why I believe that, while we are living in difficult times, we are also living in a time when we must, as former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld put it, say yes to the future. He also said, “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours”. We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. We are living in a time of threats and problems. Yet what we can put into it is entirely ours. Within this frame of our destiny we can once again inspire others with the values of education, freedom and peace, so long as we are stay true to our history and hopeful for our future.