Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.