Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

I am the Constellation of my own

Being a young leader is not the problem, having a small mind is

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.