The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.