We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.
The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U. S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.
The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.