It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

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.

Why go for something cold and dead, when you can have something hot and panting?

Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true!

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.