Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.