We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

How to Achieve The New World Order

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.