You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

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