Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

Bible Code is a subject that is very controversial - most people in the world would not even know what we are talking about.

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.