We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

We have to find the origin of the problem. The origin of the problem in many African countries is that you've got state bureaucracies which are too bloated.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.

I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.