Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

[Francois] Hollande said the United States and Russia should join forces. And his words specifically were to fight this terrorist army in a broad single coalition.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.