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.

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

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.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

I have never lost my faith in God.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.