Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

There was something in the back of my brain, tapping its fingers on the door to my memory.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Many things you are already practicing; but you practice them under fear. But if you practice them under love they become Divine.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.