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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.