Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.