It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Nothing tortures your enemies more than seeing you walk with a smile of confidence on your face.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

My following is straight. I'm so glad.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.