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.

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.

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.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Without supplies no army is brave.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.