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

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.

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.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen

If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

Never allow the ill-thoughts of people stop you from pursuing your goals and dreams.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.