We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Politics is compromise.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

Houses are full of things that gather dust

Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.