It is always when the world is undergoing a metamorphosis, when certainties are collapsing, when the lines are becoming blurred, that there is greatest recourse to fundamental reference points….
Boutros Boutros Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the World Conference on Human Rights, 1993
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
Mahatma Gandhi
The noble art of Losing Face
May sometimes save the Human Race
Piet Hein, Dane of many talents, quoted by Torsten Őrn, Swedish diplomat, in Varfŏr diplomati? (Why Diplomacy)
