You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.