Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating they'd accepted the new peace project so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008 we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune we called it a 'moral hazard ' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

Resolved that the women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.