Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it. ’ (Syn)
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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.
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
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.
When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.
Anybody that says different is selling something.
I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.
Today's winemakers still worry about quality.