People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

We all feel the responsibility to do well in his absence. We want to do well for him. In the remaining games, Kim is with us in our hearts.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

But every day, too, we get one or two we can't find anywhere — truly missing people, whose absence has only now been discovered.