The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

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?

To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.

And... Know thyself Know Know

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.