I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
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.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.