We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

Sin has invaded God's creation, and we live now in a fallen world.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

But I'm lost when it comes to you.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Chavez's oil is unimportant for Bolivia... We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.