United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.