I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
Organizing free and fair elections is more important than the result itself
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1. 7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.