A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.

No ends, simply means.

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.