Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.
Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.
I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.
I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.