It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that’s damned me more than once. But I just can’t hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

A biblical standard of sexuality is not merely a test of evangelical consistency. It is a test of evangelical authenticity and integrity.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!