If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

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.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

In wars, it is always the children who suffer the most.

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

The gifts of God that are hidden within us are designed not only for our own needs but also forthe needs of others.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

Take what you got and fly with it.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.