Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.