The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

I don’t really want fame and fortune

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.