That’s what brave is, you know. Doing what needs to be done when you’re scared shitless.

You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.