Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place

I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I dressed like her for every Halloween.

I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.