Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

She wished, as almost all kids wish at one point or another, that she could turn into a pterodactyl and fly away and never come back.

Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.

What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!

Strange, what the heart can bear. It can carry grief beyond measure. It can bear a weight that is too great to speak of. But a heart can't bear the world. It has its limits...

Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

People are freer in America. But there are more tears.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

I won't admit or deny anything...makes me more interesting.