I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.