So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

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.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.

It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth

All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never. Changeless the spirit remains, Birthless and deathless forever.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Casting is always subject to availabilities.