Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

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?

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.

Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.

All magic comes with a price. A price that is never revealed until after the damage has been done.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.