No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

I had to learn to see my shadow and hold my pain in its fullness with acceptance and forgiveness so that I could release the hate I felt for myself and quit hurling it blindly toward others.

Sadness is an invitation to God.

You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Gary Condit is on the Congressional committee for Homeland Security. They make the guy responsible for Homeland Security who is the guy no one would feel secure going home with.

Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.