Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.