Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

Organizing free and fair elections is more important than the result itself

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.