It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.