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.

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.

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

I suppose I'm just an old soul.