Until it happens, you can't predict with certainty, ... You can't take 'no' for an answer. ... You just have to keep at it until peace is achieved.

This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed,

It's an attempt to bring certainty into an uncertain world. Soldiers do the same thing — every occupation with a lot of uncertainty.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make
friends with the quietness of our sensations.

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,