Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

My underwear is my own person buisness.

Seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.