Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.