The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn.

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.