President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.
The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.
Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.
Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia. " Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen.
I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.
People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.