Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
I understand Spanish better than I speak it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
I grew up playing in the woods.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
You won't hear from me again.
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.