Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

We are hoarding potentials so great they are just about unimaginable.

Food shouldn't be half-bad. It should be all good.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.