In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.