The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Water will be more important than oil this century

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

I'm so excited about the new iPad, I just iPeed my iPants.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

There is one—how would you put it—loophole.” “Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.