Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.

Literature is life.

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

It's not what happened but how it is told.