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.

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.

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

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.

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

But you can not buy what doesn't belong to you.

The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Diamonds cut diamonds.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.