Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.
Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26 percent around the world. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths.
By 2018, automation is going to be in full swing in the United States and around the world. There are estimates that it could replace 50 percent of our jobs. That is an enormous shift. But even if we go through a phase where we have an unemployment valley from automation, there will be new jobs and new things for us to do.
Estonia maintains a two-language school system. I don't know many countries in the world that provide a system like ours. We are making sure that our Russian-speaking minority feels comfortable and involved in this country.
The E.U. is very popular in Estonia, and for very good reasons - not because Estonia has received considerable support from the E.U., but because Europe supports the values which keep small states safe in this world.
When I left Estonia, I was 16. I just wanted to leave; I wanted to see the world so much.
I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it seemed like my country had come of age. For a country that had been isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, it seemed like we were becoming part of the global community. It opened a whole new world of possibility.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
