People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of changing, transforming way we go through the world happening. The lyrical eye, the perspective of poetry, can get to something like this when other forms of writing can't.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

I'd say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn't try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker.