[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Handle the little things well

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

Be a lamp unto yourself.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.