I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.

I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.