I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Politics is compromise.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it

At times, talent is gifted! But mostly, it comes with good practice.

I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

Love isn't restricted by time because every minute and every second creates beautiful memories.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.