In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Water will be more important than oil this century

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.

You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life.

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"