The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general.

It also has potential to cause problems to individuals who had nothing to do with the terrorism issue.

We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big.

Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.

LA people are more laid back about certain things.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.