But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.

In torment, there was release.In the darkness, there was light.In solitude, there were companions.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

When you are in your heart, you love.

I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.

burning with curiosity

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.