Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

Life is unfair, but that's no reason to give up on it

A shade slinks over me and I'm caught off guard when he leans down, placing a blossom in my cleavage, his face shadowed and secretive.

If you want a great life try being kind.

I made a note to talk to him about soft drinks. Those beverages are not healthy.from counting by 7s (not listed in drop-down)

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step in a longer project that generates a lot of digital stories.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.