Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups.
There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
I try everything in moderation, but listen, if I'm at some great Italian restaurant and they bring out the wonderful bread and butter, I'm the first one to dive in the basket.
Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development. But it also could lead to the marginalization of some groups, exacerbate inequality, create new security risks, and undermine human relationships.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
I think partly the decline in the peso was due to worry about renegotiation of NAFTA, but I think we also need to think about some other mechanisms for making the peso/dollar exchange rate a bit more stable.
What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.
Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.
