"It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei."

“I can be one of the dominant players, maybe the dominant player, in the East.”

“Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.”

“I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.”

“There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.”

“Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.”

Source : John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...”, p.349

“They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”

Source : Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.107, Vintage

“My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.”

“May you see the world with wonder. And may you imagine only good things.”