We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

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?

Happiness isn't always easy, " he'd said. "But it's a priority.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.