We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

Knowledge of other peoples beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges not to create conflicts.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other Woofx9D The other replies Moox9D The dog is perplexed. Moo Why did you say Moox9D The other dog says Im trying to learn a foreign language.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.

There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.