Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.