"The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse."

“I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.”

Source : "Asafa Powell says it is time to step out of Usain Bolt's shadow". Interview With Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.

“Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.”

“The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.”

“I don't think LeBron will win 5 rings, it's gonna be hard for him to catch up to Kobe.”

“It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.”

“The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?”

“When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.”

“I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.”