The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves.

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

The more we die, the stronger we will become