You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.