"Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'"

“"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."”

“I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”

“You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.”

Source : "From Seve to D'Oliveira: The sportsmen and women we lost in 2011" by Lee Westwood, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2011.

“I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'”

“I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.”

“Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.”

“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt