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.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

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 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.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.