It's important for people to try and be more like Marco Polo in how he explored the world, very few of us nowadays pay attention to cultures and try to understand them.

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.

We need to embrace the differences between our cultures and love them.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

I like having written better than I like having acted.

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

Real friends stab you in the front.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.