God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

My difficulties belong to me!

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.