I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
I'll go where secrets are sold Where roses unfold I'll sleep as time goes by
But look, I cleared out all y’all that got in the wayAnd y’all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre