You see Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions even though in Finnish society we are not facing the most urgent problems.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

At every turn when humanity is asked the question 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss which one do you prefer ' we invariably choose the money.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

You see some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

I think an education is beneficial but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given is our society. Your education and your mother and father they tell you this is how it is but then you hit adolescence and you think 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

The question is will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.