People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.

You cannot ask questions about your purpose from to other people

The highway behind gives me courage to move into the future. I desire to see the first light of tomorrow.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

What we need now is some new, fresh clichés.

It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.