It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.

Focus on beauty to have a beautiful life.

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Even one moment in the company of a divine person, Krishna's pure devotee, can help a tremendous amount.

Deeds survive the doers.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.