The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

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I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.