Anything can happen in one day.
Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me. " In the past people have died making that same mistake.
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.
In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam. . . and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.