Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

There's always room for Jell-O

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

Nothing is more anti-semitic than Zionism

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers